Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals 1863-1866 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by RichardJ.Smith (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $42.92

  Robert Hart was the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service. These journals follow on from Entering China's Service and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch'ing bureaucracy and inspecting treaty ports.